"As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious."

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Walter Savage Landor

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“A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.”
“Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.”
“I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.”

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“This Life is More than Just a read through.”
“I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.”
“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.”
“Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.”
“A childhood without books â€“ that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”

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